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/ 27 January 2006
Patrice Evra is desperate to impress at Manchester United, hoping that a run of good performances will earn him a place in France’s World Cup squad. He tells Darren Tulett about how he made it to Manchester United with the help of a Senegalese stranger in Milan and a group of nuns — among others
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/ 27 January 2006
If all goes according to plan, the League Cup final on February 26 will be the last English final at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium. Sir Alex Ferguson, winner of more than 25 trophies in his years at Old Trafford, will have mixed emotions about the return to Wembley — even if Manchester United overcome Wigan that day at the Welsh stadium.
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/ 27 January 2006
Police have appealed to the public not to take short cuts across swollen rivers and streams after a pregnant mother and her daughter were found drowned on Friday morning. ”Many people drown this way,” said spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman, of the North Rand policing area.
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/ 27 January 2006
Champions Tunisia on Thursday stayed on course to become only the second team to retain the African Nations Cup since it was extended to 16 sides as they beat a sorry South Africa 2-0 in their Group C clash. Defeat ended Bafana Bafana’s interest in the competition and confirmed their sharp decline since winning the title in 1996.
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/ 27 January 2006
After months of speculation about whether it would happen, the A1 grand prix circus has rolled into South Africa for the first street-race in the fledgling series. Sceptics doubted that the streets of Durban could be safely converted into an international-level race track in a mere two months.
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/ 27 January 2006
The Bafana Bafana players currently doing duty in the African Cup of Nations (Afcon) in Egypt suffered the shock defeat of their careers, and it was not only on the field of play. The players expected a groundswell of support for their demands for more pay, probably banking on the entrenched contempt for the South African Football Association.
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/ 27 January 2006
Most Dusi veterans have portaged Burma Road at least once and most swear they will never, ever do it again. But the top contenders know that if they run the whole thing — it takes about 30 minutes — they can save a minute on a fast crew paddling around and shooting the biggest rapids of the three-day event.
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/ 27 January 2006
Two German nationals living in South Africa, but with overseas bank accounts, have been targeted by banking scamsters using personal identity and banking details, which were apparently leaked by a government department.
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/ 27 January 2006
Rhodes University has offered Dr Ashwin Desai — controversially barred from seeking employment at the University of KwaZulu-Natal — both a short-term lecturing post in sociology and a venue for his research project on transformation in South African sport.
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/ 27 January 2006
The ANC has pledged to weed out candidates with
skeletons in their closets, but a few have slipped the net.